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		<title>Snow blind!</title>
		<description>Still deep snow here, and bright sun at times, quite dazzling. Not snowing right now, not been much at all today. I can hear the irregular plop of huge loads of snow sliding off the roof, hope it doesn't all melt soon.Chaps in the office have made a ... </description>
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		<category>water babies</category>
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		<category>snow skate</category>
		<category>snow skating</category>
		<category>youtube</category>
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		<title>High Speed rail link is live today</title>
		<description>So look out, all the timetables from Folkestone have changed... Does this mean there will now be a surge of interest in buying my flat, from moneyed London types? More likely just that the kind of houses we want to buy in the area will be priced out ... </description>
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		<category>rage against the machine</category>
		<category>killing in the name</category>
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		<title>John Lewis Bergerac side table</title>
		<description>Collect from Cheshire... why are none of these bits of furniture in the South? Do people in the South not care? Or do they just hang on to them?Got our first viewers of the flat today, wish us luck!... </description>
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		<title>100k doesn't buy you much of a home round here</title>
		<description>Buy the thirteen-and-a-half acre Capel Battery site instead! Secret wartime tunnels up for auction... Guide price 90-100,000. Bargain!... </description>
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		<category>capel le ferne</category>
		<category>capel battery</category>
		<category>secret tunnels</category>
		<link>http://www.folkestonegerald.com/m/12912/100k+doesn%27t+buy+you+much+of+a+home+round+here</link>
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		<title>Thirty-seven!</title>
		<description>Lawks, thirty-seven years young today! Happy birthday to my good lady wife too who shares my birthday but not my advanced age.Met up for lunch today at Brockhill Country Park, there is an all vege cafe there that is absolutely brilliant. Got some lov... </description>
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		<category>happy birthday</category>
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		<title>Set of SIX Habitat Radius chairs</title>
		<description>Maybe worth me buying these and selling on the extras... NO! NO more furniture until after we move!Dimensions W52 x H76.5 x D58cm, seat height: 48cmThese chairs are solid oak in a natural colour, made to go with the Habitat Radius range of furniture ... </description>
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		<category>chair</category>
		<category>chairs</category>
		<category>habitat radius oak</category>
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		<category>habitat radius oak chairs</category>
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		<category>two bed flat for sale</category>
		<category>flat for sale</category>
		<category>folkestone flat for sale</category>
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		<title>Another brace of Habitat Radius chairs</title>
		<description>£150 quid, collect from Reading. Not buying any more furniture any time soon in case we sell the flat. Had it valued yesterday, would be very nice to think it would actually sell for the prices the estate agents quoted. Going to get one more valuatio... </description>
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		<category>two bed flat for sale</category>
		<category>flat for sale</category>
		<category>folkestone flat for sale</category>
		<link>http://www.clarkeology.com/m/12818/Another+brace+of+Habitat+Radius+chairs</link>
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		<title>Underground house video</title>
		<description>Have a look round the new underground houses built in what was the boiler house of the Metropole hotel. Bit of a video look round, courtesty of www.kentonline.co.uk. Prices around 300k each, but you can look for free!... </description>
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		<title>Saw a GREAT house at the weekend</title>
		<description>But boo, it was too small! I've decided this is my ideal location in Canterbury though, just off Old Dover Road, everything just looks nice. This was actually on between Old Dover Road and New Dover Road. This house is under budget, three bedrooms, n... </description>
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		<category>old dover road</category>
		<link>http://www.clarkeology.com/m/12408/Saw+a+GREAT+house+at+the+weekend</link>
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		<title>Not thought to look on ebay for a house before</title>
		<description>Here's one near us. Via FG, where there are more details. Kind of via there anyway, obviously I wrote that and I wrote this. It's not our house though, just to clear up any confusion...Only 15 minutes left to bid, so I guess no-one will after followi... </description>
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		<link>http://www.clarkeology.com/m/12254/Not+thought+to+look+on+ebay+for+a+house+before</link>
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		<title>House for sale on Ebay</title>
		<description>Is this usual? A house for sale on ebay, in Capel-le-Ferne?£152,500 opening offer, no bids so far. Most interestingly (apart from the P&amp;P details saying &quot;local pickup&quot;) isWE ARE WALKING AWAY AND LEAVING ALL FURNISHINGS AND FIXINGS WHICH ARE INCLUDED ... </description>
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		<category>property for sale</category>
		<link>http://www.folkestonegerald.com/m/12253/House+for+sale+on+Ebay</link>
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		<title>Titanic property investment and an all vegan NHS</title>
		<description>Couple of interesting stories in the Guardian podcast today, first a seemingly obviously ill-fated property development in the Harland and Wolff shipyard, they're callling it the Titanic quarter. 1000 luxury private flats, 16000 students, a hotel (on... </description>
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		<category>meat</category>
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		<category>harland wolff</category>
		<category>harland and wolff</category>
		<category>titanic</category>
		<category>property</category>
		<link>http://www.clarkeology.com/m/12002/Titanic+property+investment+and+an+all+vegan+NHS</link>
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		<title>Good day's house hunting</title>
		<description>Saw the one I mentioned the other day, and it was not what I expected. The pictures don't do it justice, or I was a bit pessimistic when I was looking at the details, it's huge! And it has a ridiculous amount of character, it's all beams and half sta... </description>
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		<category>wincheap</category>
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		<category>thanington</category>
		<link>http://www.clarkeology.com/m/11981/Good+day%27s+house+hunting</link>
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		<title>Ooh dicky tum today</title>
		<description>There I was earlier this week bragging about how I never ever get ill, and I am possibly super human and almost certainly immortal, and here I am today suffering with a bit of a stomach bug :-( Clare had it earlier this week, and now she's passed it ... </description>
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		<category>ill</category>
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		<category>chartham</category>
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		<title>Back on the house train</title>
		<description>As just mentioned, we've kickstarted our house hunt again, starting with three viewings yesterday. We've reduced our budget which I think is reasonable, basically knocking 20% off the top price of places we're looking at, because of house the market ... </description>
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		<title>Rents not so soaring</title>
		<description>Well, I'm sure they're still rising, but the flat upstairs has possibly not been let yet, I think the sign must have just blown down. It's back again today.Man, hella busy at work still, but it's good. I'm trying to clear a backlog of outstanding tas... </description>
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		<category>rent</category>
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		<link>http://www.clarkeology.com/m/11280/Rents+not+so+soaring</link>
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		<title>Rents SOARING!</title>
		<description>Saw a feature on BBC Breakfast this morning about how that blame-for-everything credit crunch is leading to a rise in rental values - people who can't afford to buy have to rent, and there's still a limited number of properties available, so rents wi... </description>
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		<category>folkestone</category>
		<category>earls avenue</category>
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		<link>http://www.clarkeology.com/m/11279/Rents+SOARING%21</link>
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		<title>Yep, I could do with some clear signs</title>
		<description>I think things are actually falling right now, but I want a nice blatant signpost saying &quot;they have stopped falling, now is the time to buy&quot;...</description>
		<category>property</category>
		<link>http://www.clarkeology.com/m/11197/Yep%2C+I+could+do+with+some+clear+signs</link>
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		<title>Yesterday's house hunt</title>
		<description>A trip to Canterbury yesterday, an early start, four houses to see. First one was a bit further out than we first thought, up Whitstable Road, though not an insurmountable distance to Canterbury West. The house is at the end of a cul-de-sac, so you h... </description>
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		<title>House hunt</title>
		<description>Two houses today in Canterbury, different parts of town, but with things in common. For starters, both too expensive really at 250k each. If the market really is tumbling we might be able to make a cheeky offer on just about anything we see now thoug... </description>
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		<category>pound lane</category>
		<category>old dover road</category>
		<category>boho</category>
		<category>escondido</category>
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		<title>We nearly bought one of these</title>
		<description>and perhaps should have done, half price Bergerac Oak TV stand. If you can collect from Glossop. Not worth organising a courier for really.Been a while since I posted any furniture bargains. Will be a while again before we buy anything I suspect. All... </description>
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		<title>The Long Blondes at the Amersham Arms</title>
		<description>Just reading this post about a gig in New Cross (from one of my regular reads) makes me think I should go back and visit one day. I wish I'd bought a flat there when I was renting - I had more money those days, and I ended up paying more for this fla... </description>
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		<category>blogs</category>
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		<category>folkestone</category>
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		<title>Boo, pissed off</title>
		<description>Just had our viewing of the house we were going to see tomorrow cancelled, the vendors have received a full asking price offer yesterday. We hadn't seen this house yet (apart from online), it was right on the street with no real garden to speak of, a... </description>
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		<category>canterbury</category>
		<category>folkestone</category>
		<link>http://www.clarkeology.com/m/11047/Boo%2C+pissed+off</link>
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		<title>Another house hunting trip to Canterbury</title>
		<description>Saw three places today, first one before lunch was at Forty Acres Road, Canterbury and was a three bedroom (just about) but with plenty of room downstairs. Good sized lounge, downstairs bathroom, and a nice kitchen that was open to a big conservatory... </description>
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		<category>st stephens</category>
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		<title>Boo, house rubbishness</title>
		<description>Both the houses we were interested in (even if we could barely afford them) this modern one near Canterbury West, and Black Griffin Lane are both sold! Subject to contract anyway. I thought the housing market meant to be slow at the moment?... </description>
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		<link>http://www.clarkeology.com/m/10955/Boo%2C+house+rubbishness</link>
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		<title>Two completely different properties this week</title>
		<description>Saw two houses yesterday in Canterbury, wildly different, and they highlight the fact that we want somewhere exactly in between, which is something that does not exist, at least within our budget...First house was in Vernon Place, and though we're id... </description>
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		<category>vernon place</category>
		<category>hanover place</category>
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		<title>House-hunting trip to Canterbury #3</title>
		<description>Just setting up a space for the map here, preloaded it with some images of one place we're going to see:
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		<title>You wait ages for a John Lewis Bergerac table</title>
		<description>And then two come along at once. This one looks like a genuine sale, be lovely to think it stayed near it's opening price of fifty quid and didn't sail up to the thousand pound mark, but unlikely. As a bonus there you get to have a nose around that p... </description>
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		<category>bergerac</category>
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		<title>That one's a bit small so we've not been to see it</title>
		<description>We did go see a three bed place right across the road from there that was nice, but also a bit small really. That's right on a really busy road and there's no other access to it, so that put me off... Whitstable Road is a nice area though.... </description>
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		<category>whitstable road</category>
		<category>house</category>
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		<link>http://www.clarkeology.com/m/10877/That+one%27s+a+bit+small+so+we%27ve+not+been+to+see+it</link>
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		<title>Who says the housing market is dead?</title>
		<description>Clare reports that that house we really liked in Black Griffin Lane is under offer already. It's only been on the market a week. Looks like we're going to miss that one then.... </description>
		<category>canterbury</category>
		<category>house</category>
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		<category>black griffin lane</category>
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		<title>Property Ladder</title>
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